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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!sgigate.sgi.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.fido.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!alfie.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk (Nick Holloway) Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages Date: 27 Jun 1996 08:15:26 +0100 Organization: Alfie's Internet Node Lines: 18 Sender: alfie@alfie.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <4qtcee$n1h@alfie.demon.co.uk> References: <31c2e7bd.14691630@news.demon.co.uk> <834878464snz@pair.com> <834921960snz@michaels.demon.co.uk> <835206024.5881.2@diltd.demon.co.uk> <slrn4sgtd6.ds.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <835294223.22071.1@diltd.demon.co.uk> <slrn4sjj16.cs.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <199606261821.SAA02204@mauve.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: alfie.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: alfie.demon.co.uk Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk> writes: > A www-server that could do reget, or restart or whatever would > be very usefull, can such a thing exist? I haven't checked the HTTP protocol in detail, but I suspect that it doesn't include an offset to continue fetching at. I keep muttering that sites should make large downloads available by ftp, as well as via http for this reason. A short shell script can automatically use reget to continue fetching. Of course, this is completely thwarted by Microsoft. Their NT ftp server does support restarting at an offset (used by reget) but only if the offset is 0. Sigh. -- `O O' | Home: Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk // ^ \\ | Work: Nick.Holloway@parallax.co.uk http://www.parallax.co.uk/~alfie/